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My So Called Life · The Ataris

EXERCISE 9 OF 59
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 59 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART B, PART N
PART D
PART K
PART B
PART K
PART N
PART Z
BREAK 2
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAIDKOS16+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My So Called Life on drums

154 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 3:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16 and silence through bars 17-20, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-26 and 55-60 -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
My So Called Life -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- K, N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 21-41 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-53 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 51-71 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-91 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My So Called Life?

165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is My So Called Life hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in My So Called Life?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 27, 28, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED